March 5th Update

Students have completed the Human Body Unit.  We will begin Women as World Leaders on Monday.  We will also be working on email etiquette and writing professional/social emails, fractions and fractions in word problems and determining wants versus needs and how these impact budgeting.

UPCOMING DATES OF IMPORTANCE:

CBI- Wed. March 7th to Independent Grounds Coffee Shop!

PROM for our Seniors – March 10th

 

 

February 16th update…..

 

Next week, February 19th-23rd, is Winter Break. This year is FLYING by!!! The students have done a great job to catch up and keep up with our curriculum map! We have completed our Civil Rights Movement and Famous Americans Units, our Meteorology Unit, and our Biography Unit with choice biographies from our Civil Rights and Famous Americans studies. We completed part of our Human Body Unit prior to the break.

When we return on the 26th, we will complete our Human Body Unit by learning about the respiratory system and how the lungs and heart work together to provide oxygen to our bodies. After that, we will complete a Novel Study (students will vote to choose the novel) and study Women as World Leaders. In math, we will continue to work on using regrouping to balance a checkbook, real life grocery store math and solving for a variable. We will also continue to work on speaking and listening skills -specifically related to work situations, vocational skills and independent living skills.

Upcoming dates to remember:

CBI will be on March 7th and 28th.

Prom is March 10th – our seniors will go as a group and have received information about the night.  Students need to return a behavior contract to attend.

 

January 22nd

I hope everyone is enjoying safe, warm and restful snow days!  Next week we will continue our Civil Rights Unit with a focus on key contributions of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy, Jr.  We will also continue to learn  about non fiction text features as we compare and contrast JFK and Abraham Lincoln and use sequence to describe key events in the Civil Rights Movement.  We will continue to practice 3 and more digit addition and subtraction with regrouping applying the concept to balancing a checkbook.  Speaking and listening will focus on conversational skill, both social and vocational :  Am I talking too much? Am I talking too little? How to read the reactions of others in a conversation.  Hopefully, we will begin our scheduled Meteorology Unit this week.

Upcoming Dates:  Curriculum Night is Monday, January 22nd; CBI on Tuesday (January 23rd);  CBI on February 7th;  Special  Needs Dance on February 12th and  for our Seniors Prom is March 10th

 

 

Welcome Back!

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a restful and relaxing holiday break!

CBI is Monday, January 8th.  We will go to the theater to see “The Greatest Showman.”  In addition to practicing life skills (appropriate behaviors/engaging in leisure activities), we will also tie this CBI to our non-fiction unit which includes biographies.

Please see the updated curriculum map for 2nd semester units of study!

November 17th

This class has been doing great!! We finished solutes, solvents and solutions last week and finished Veteran’s Day, Colonial Life and Measurement this week.  Coffee shop is going great and students are working on filling out applications (including a cursive signature) and handling “sticky” situations at work.  Everyone is working hard and to potential!  I could not be more proud of the engagement and work ethic!!

Upcoming dates:

Thanksgiving Break:  November 20th -24th

CBI – November 29th – Town Center Mall

We are working on increasing our walking during adapted PE.  Ask your child how many laps walked each day!!  The minimum required is 5 but many are going above and beyond.  12 laps is a mile!

 

Week of October 16th

Wow!  This year is flying by!!

 

Academics for the next two weeks:

Social Studies:

Government/elections unit – Continued study of the Constitution and the amendment process including the significance of certain amendments (Bill of Rights, Reconstruction Amendments)

Science:

Properties of Solutions

ELA:

Speaking and Listening (interview skills); Sequential writing, friendly letter (pen pal activity with middle schoolers); Novel Study – Frankenstein

Math:

Geometry (shapes and congruence)

Functional/Vocational:

Exploring and Selecting occupational choices; Interviewing for a job

 

 

Welcome Back!

I hope you all had a nice fall break!

We have a busy homecoming week this week! Information about spirit days, the game and dance has been emailed – please let me know if you  have any questions!

CBI is this Wednesday- no money needed! Pep Rally on Friday!

Upcoming academic units over the next two weeks:

Math:  Graphing and interpreting data

ELA:  Narrative Writings (focus on sequencing, details and organization of writing) and a new novel study to be determined by the class, the  choices include Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Science:  States of Matter  AND Properties of Solutions

Social Studies:  Government (including key features of the Constitution and Amendments) and  Personal Finance -Types of Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week of September 5th

The plan for this (short) week:                                  

Tuesday is character ed in homeroom.  The goal for character education can be described in the Martin Luther King quote, ‘Intelligence plus character, that is the true goal of education”.  Tuesday’s lesson will relate well to last week’s unit on making healthy (and independent) choices in all 6 components of health and how this can be impacted by the value of self.

ELA:  We will review using secondary sources to define words and begin Word of the Day to build vocabulary (either content related or through the “Word of the Day” curriculum).  We will review using sequence to organize writing when writing narratives.

Math:  This is the last week for determining operation in word problems (for now!). We will continue fact fluency practice and individualized practice in our math rotations.   Also, we will participate in baselines for graphing and geometry to determine levels for upcoming units.

Social Studies:  We will review and build on Patriotism and Symbols of America.  We spent a good deal of time on this last year and students have retained much information so this will be a one week unit ending on September 12th.

Functional/Life Skills/Vocational:  CBI to Costco on Wednesday; Coffee Shop; Character Ed (Tuesday); News 2 You and CNN Students News (Thursday, Friday). Topics of Study include identifying and exhibiting appropriate work habits and safety awareness.

 

 

 

August 28th – September 1st

Please visit our photo gallery for some pictures from our viewing of the Eclipse and our solar system project!

Next week in class looks like this:

ELA- Speaking and listening skills- finding a group consensus, using context cues and secondary sources to define words, writing conventions (paragraph, sentence), writing prompts for narratives

Math- Equations – determining operation in word problems, fact fluency and functional math (time – including elapsed time and the language of time)

Social Studies – Symbols of America (Washington Monument project)

Life Skills – Continuation of making good choices for independent living as related to the  6 components of health – this week we focus on emotional health and  self-esteem

Vocational – Coffee Shop

Wednesday is an early release day!

Friday is the first football game and we will have a pep rally fourth block!

 

 

 

Week of August 21st

ELA – Daily Language review, speaking and listening skills with continued practice in propelling an on topic conversation through appropriate participation (posing and answering) questions and review of how to write good sentences and paragraphs. We will also complete Fall Brigance Assessments.
Math- Continued equations, fact fluency practice and functional math, complete Brigance Assessments.
Science – ECLIPSE activities
Life Skills – Preparing for independent living – making good choices for healthy living, budgeting and maintaining a check register
Vocational – Coffee shop – New job assignments this week!

I will out 1/2 Wed. morning and on Friday. We have our regular sub (Mrs. Chewning) covering and it will be business as usual!